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About the Arts Collection

About the Arts Collection The Arts Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing.

Although this collection is still in its infancy, future additions may include archival as well as published materials and may be drawn from a variety of formats: books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, audio and video, and more. Our first submission to the collection is the journal Arts in Society, published on the University of Wisconsin campus from 1958 to 1976. We hope and intend that this digital UW Arts Collection continues the tradition of providing informative, thought-provoking resources regarding the arts.

More Information about Selected Subcollections

Jump to: The American Suzuki Institute | Art Department Faculty Exhibition Catalogues | Arts in Society | The Bone Folder's Guild & the Wisconsin Book Festival - Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries | Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain | Ediciones Eloísa Cartonera Book Covers | Folk Figures: A Survey of Norwegian and Norwegian-American Artifacts in Wisconsin | Illustrated Shakespeare Collection | Notes from the Stone-paved Path: Meditations on North India, by Lewis Koch | Rural Artists of Wisconsin, by John Rector Barton

The American Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: The Suzuki Method in Action
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.SuzukiAbout

The American Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: The Suzuki Method in Action Videos in the collection Japanese violinist and educator, Shinichi Suzuki, was born on Oct. 17, 1898 in Nagoya, Japan. Though his father owned a violin factory, Suzuki did not appreciate the beautiful tone of a string instrument until, as a 17 year old, he heard violinist Mischa Elman’s recording of Schubert’s Ave Maria. After hearing the recording he went to the factory, picked out a violin and bow, and spent days trying to imitate what he heard. He began formal violin study a few years later, and at 22, had the chance to study in Germany. His own beginning attempts on the violin, and the experience of learning the German language as an adult, influenced Dr. Suzuki’s later ideas about teaching children. This collection is comprised of digitized video. You may need to download the free real media player to view the videos.

Art Department Faculty Exhibition Catalogues
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.ArtFacExhibits

Arts in Society In 1974, the UW-Madison Art Department and the Elvehjem Art Center (later the Elvehjem Museum of Art, now the Chazen Museum of Art) began a regular series of group art exhibitions showcasing the works of Art Department faculty. Occurring every four years, the exhibitions provided and continue to provide an opportunity for faculty to display their creative work to students and the community at large. Each exhibition has been documented with a printed catalogue, and these catalogues are presented here in full-text online. The catalogues are a rich historical record, containing remarks by the museum director and department chair, photographs of faculty with statements and biography, and illustrated with photographs of the exhibited works themselves. From catalogue to catalogue, one can chart the evolving nature of the artists' work, the department's faculty, and the creative atmosphere of the UW-Madison campus.

Arts in Society
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.ArtsSoc

Arts in Society Arts in Society (1958-1976) is an interdisciplinary journal that "discusses, interprets, and illustrates the various roles of the arts in contemporary society." In scope, the journal defines the arts broadly to include music, literature, theater, dance, film, and visual arts. Arts in Society was published by the University of Wisconsin, University Extension Division, between 1958 and 1976, appearing irregularly, one to four times per year, often in thematic issues. Individual issues include titles such as: Government in Art (1963), Arts and the Black Revolution (1968), Arts of Activism (1969), Women and the Arts (1974), and Arts in Academe (1975). Each issue contains individually authored articles, essays, poems, and interviews by both University of Wisconsin-Madison and non-campus-affiliated contributors. This journal is significant both for its information content and as a primary source reflecting the artistic climate and discourse of the 1960s. Full text of all issues is provided here, and both browsing and keyword searching are enabled. The journal Arts in Society has also been selectively indexed in citation services including: America: History and Life; Current Index to Journals in Education; Historical Abstracts; M.L.A. International Bibliography; Philosopher's Index; Psychological Abstracts; Abstracts of English Studies; and ARTbibliographies Modern.

The Bone Folder's Guild & the Wisconsin Book Festival - Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.WIBookFestival

Sixty BooksThis digital collection was a collaborative book arts, writing and journaling project for the people of south central Wisconsin. The book collection was originally hosted by the South Central Library System (SCLS), and produced by the Bone Folders’ Guild (BFG), a book arts group based in Madison. This project was supported by a Madison CitiARTS grant.

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.CasselmanImage

Casselman ImageThis collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century. The majority of the slides focus on the Mudejar style, an ornate court style largely inspired by Spanish Islamic architecture that was shared among Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures during the later Middle Ages in Spain. He even began writing a book-length manuscript on Mudejar architecture, which he never completed.

Ediciones Eloísa Cartonera Book Covers
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.EloisaCart

Eloisa CartoneraFollowing Argentina's economic collapse in late 2001, the Eloisa Cartonera company arose from the ruins in Almagro, a lower middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires. In a broken-down shop on Guardia Street, young writers and artists have established an art gallery and bookshop that serves as the public face of Eloisa Cartonera, a publishing house that makes original books from recycled cardboard and cheap prints and sells them for less than 5 pesos ($1.60) each, about a third the price of a conventional paperback. The book covers are printed with rough stencils and poster paints. UW-Madison, Memorial Library Special Collections houses the collection.

Folk Figures: A Survey of Norwegian and Norwegian-American Artifacts
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.FolkFigures

Folk Figures: A Survey of Norwegian and Norwegian-American Artifacts in Wisconsin Folk Figures: A Survey of Norwegian and Norwegian-American Artifacts brings together, in digital form, a virtual exhibit of objects ranging from the 17th century through the 1930's that depict animals, humans, birds, fish, or supernatural figures. These figures provide unique insight into the folk beliefs, social, religious, cultural, and political influences conveyed through the objects. Folk art constitutes the largest part of the survey but it is juxtaposed with a smaller grouping of professionally or commercially produced objects expressing characteristics of the national romantic movement or the Viking revival period around the turn of the 20th century. Unlike traditions such as Norwegian chip carving and rosemaling, figures tend to be an art of individual expression. However, these artifacts do suggest long held figure associations with certain household objects, such as the horse, a fertility symbol, often serving as the handle on mangle boards, which were known to be given as betrothal gifts. The collection is an expanding project. Currently, there are over 80 objects and 200 images. Each entry includes a full image of the artifact, detail images, and is accompanied by basic artifact information. <more>

Illustrated Shakespeare Collection
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.IllusShake

Illustrated Shakespeare This online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century.

Notes from the Stone-paved Path: Meditations on North India, by Lewis Koch
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.KochNotes

Lewis Koch; Notes from the Stone-paved Path: Meditations on North India In this project, Lewis Koch has paired photographs he made in the north of India in 1995-96 with pages photographed from books pertaining to this region among the holdings of Memorial Library. This keepsake features a selection of Koch's photo-text diptychs, along with a bibliography of the books in question, some fifty in the full project. The books themselves speak to themes ranging from agricultural economics and autobiography to short stories, and reflect sensibilities from the mid-14th century to scholarship of the late 20th century. This is an electronic facsimile of a print keepsake produced in conjunction with an exhibit by the same title in the Department of Special Collections in fall 2003. The exhibit consisted of Koch's photographic diptychs paired with books from Memorial Library. For further information, please write to lewiskoch@yahoo.com

Rural Artists of Wisconsin, by John Rector Barton
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.BartonRural

Rural Artists of Wisconsin

the UWDCC celebrates our one-millionth image John Rector Barton's Rural Artists of Wisconsin (copyright 1948 by the Regents of the University of Wisconsin) was originally published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin. The book showcases the life and work of thirty non- professional Wisconsin artists who participated in Rural Art Exhibitions held at UW-Madison Memorial Union. It also provides a complete listing of all works on display at the 1940-1948 series of Rural Art Exhibitions organized by the Rural Art Committee in cooperation with the Student Union Gallery Committee. The UWDCC Arts Collection is indebted to Arthur O. Hove for suggesting this title for digitization as a valuable resource on the history of visual arts in Wisconsin. The UWDCC celebrates its one millionth digitized image from within this book. Rural Artists of Wisconsin is a University of Wisconsin Press publication.
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Technical Note

Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):

  • Hand-written texts;
  • Texts that contain diacritics;
  • Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
  • Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
  • Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.

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